Publicity and Marketing

The Basingstoke Canal Society (The Society) needs your skills and experience in Sales and Marketing.

The Society is looking for someone with social media skills to join our social media and marketing team to help plan and send out regular communications to the community.

We have several roles available as part of our work to raise the profile of the Canal. Some of the areas where we need support include:

• Support for Press Officer: we need someone help coordinate our links with the local press and other outlets. Needless to say, it would help if you have some marketing and organisational experience.
• General marketing support with the Campaign team. Contact us to find out more.
• Sales Volunteer of books and items on the website/events: currently we sell around £5000 of books and other items and we need someone to help continue to promote them along with posting them out.

It is an interesting and exciting opportunity as we grow our reach, now over 75,000 people, and have following nearing 10,000 on Facebook alone.

What skills do I need?

We are looking for people with excellent communication skills and 'Can Do' attitude. 

Volunteering is a very important part of how the Canal is run and maintained, and really makes a difference. Not only that:

• It’s fun
• It’s a great way to meet new people
• You learn new skills
• You feel good giving back to the community
• It’s interesting to learn about the canal, nature and conservation
• It’s a great way to keep fit and active or just to get you out of the house and get some fresh air.